AppLocker is a great new feature in Windows 7 Enterprise and Ultimate editions, by which you can control which applications are allowed to run on the computers in your organization. Sound a lot like Software Restriction Policies? Well, yes – and no. SRP was introduced in XP and Server 2003, but it was used by many admins, in large part because of the difficulty and time involved in setting it up and maintaining it. more...
IT administrators are groaning already. The more patches to apply, the more chance that something will go wrong. The smart thing to do is test all of the updates before rolling them out, but more patches means more time doing that. February may be a short month but it’s a big one when it comes to Patch Tuesday (today, February 9). It will include thirteen security bulletins (a nasty omen for the superstitious among us), five of them rated as critical. more...
If your company is still running Windows 2000 or Windows XP SP2, you only have a few months before Microsoft retires support for those operating systems. And beginning in April, there will be no more security updates for the RTM version of Vista (the original release). It’s time to upgrade your XP machines to SP3 or start planning to switch to Windows 7, if only for the security advantages. And those Vista computers need to be upgraded to SP1 or SP2. more...
Here’s good news for you if you’re a cybersecurity guru or aspire to be one. The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a piece of legislation, the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2009 (HR 4061) that will shovel millions of dollars in funding into the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the purpose of developing cybersecurity programs, constructing cybersecurity research facilities and offering scholarships and training programs in cybersecurity at colleges and universities. more...
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